I am going to stop saying things like 'This damaged site is a great loss', because they are all a great loss! The location of this circle is beautiful, well it would have been before modern farming encroached upon it. It is nestled amongst a cluster of rocky out crops, one of which occupies a prominent position 100m away along the line of the axis. 150m to the south a river carves its way through the land, filling the air with the babbling of water. On this visit this sound had a couple of cuckoos on backing vocals.
Five stones now remain describing a circle 7m in diameter. The axial stone is nice and broad while each of the other stones are very equal in shape and size. These are slightly taller than the axial stone and rectangular in plan.
In the centre of the circle is a sixth stone - a sole menhir which must be part of the original design as it is exactly the same shape/size as the other stones. Or perhaps it was relocated from the circumference to the centre for some reason, perhaps to despoil the sacred area within.
One of the entrance stones is luckily still there, which is set radially and the inner stone is inline with this and the corresponding edge of the axial stone opposite.
The walk past the beat up Ford Fiestas at the start of the famr track that leads right up to the site is soon forgotten once you reach this place. The site seems to exude a magic on you, which is amazing when you consider the relatively poor state of the monument. I actually think that this site could have this effect even if you took the stones away, but then I would not have come here to experience it. This location chose itself and the genius loci that caused the builders to come here still lives on regardless of man's efforts to kill it.
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